Clint Boulton

ChoicePoint, which had the personal information of 145,000 people pried from its grasp recently, has improved its ability to help financial service and insurance customers detect fraudulent activity. The company, one of the largest data warehouses in the U.S., with Social Security numbers and credit reports on almost every American, said it acquired fraud-detection software […]

Symbol Technologies has returned legal fire against Intermec Technologies, filing another round of patent infringement suits concerning wireless scanning technologies. Symbol is also seeking an injunction barring rival Intermec from using its software, as well as monetary damages for prior use of its technology. In the latest sparring match between the two wireless purveyors, Symbol […]

UPDATED: SOA Software will add Oracle’s BPEL engine to its security and management software to shore up its Web services delivery. Internetnews.com has learned that SOA Software has arranged for Oracle’s BPEL Process Manager to integrate with its Service Manager software, which allows administrators to protect Web services applications as they are shuttled across different […]

A European Union executive has told Microsoft to “urgently” comply with orders the commission imposed regarding the software giant’s competitive stance, or face punitive action. EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer met late Tuesday at Microsoft’s request, confirmed EU spokesman Jonathan Todd. The executives discussed the company’s failure to comply with […]

HP has issued a 2.5-inch hard drive for its entire ProLiant server line in an effort to lure customers from IBM, Dell and EMC. Small form factor hard drives are prized in the industry because they provide a number of advantages over their more traditional 3.5 inch drives, including the ability to do online transaction […]

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Dell is taking network-attached storage (NAS) to its midrange customers, courtesy of a device made by EMC. The co-branded Dell/EMC NS500G serves files for applications like file sharing, computing clusters and Web content serving. The device is what industry vendors call a NAS gateway, letting data administrators consolidate data from different systems on one pool […]

SGI has sold the U.S. Department of Defense a supercomputer to help the agency simulate aircraft, weapon systems and battlefield scenarios more accurately than ever before. The DoD’s U.S. General Services Administration and Federal Technology Service group installed the machine at the Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force […]

UPDATED: Private equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC has agreed to acquire online advertising giant DoubleClick for $1.1 billion in cash. JMI Equity, a San Diego-based venture capital firm that pumps money into the software and business service sectors, will join Hellman & Friedman in the deal. Should the deal close in the third quarter […]

Trustgenix, one of the few remaining pure-play makers of software that allows single sign-on access between companies, is reaching out to smaller businesses. Called IdentityBridge Standard Edition (SE), the software provides federated identity management that lets large companies extend single sign-on to smaller firms that may not have the funds to buy new infrastructure. Single […]

Forum Systems is bundling antivirus software from Computer Associates in the next version of its XML firewall product. The move is an effort to fend off meddlesome intruders that can infect XML and SOAP documents, stalling crucial network activity. Forum Systems officials said they have tucked eTrust AntiVirus software into the Forum XWall Web Services […]

If a recent survey is any indication, demand for a standard way to see a database table as an XML document is blossoming. According to research from XML tools maker DataDirect Technologies, 52 percent of 550 XML developers surveyed have already started working with XML Query (XQuery) 1.0, a proposal for a query language that […]